ActivationEnsues

Thanks! That did it!

I just re-installed SC4 on my relatively new laptop after using an older Dell, and for some reason I'm having a few graphics problems I was wondering if anyone else has encountered. Whenever I try and place any building that has a radius of effect (fire station, schools, hospitals, etc, default or custom lots), I don't see the radius of effect as I'm trying to determine where to plop the building. However, when I go to the map data view or query one of those buildings, all the radii show up. Additionally, whenever I try and plop a building that has a direction arrow (Elevated Rail stop, police station, Mayor's House, etc), that arrow does not appear. Thankfully I can rotate the building around or have it snap to the road, but that's a problem too. I will try and get images to accompany this post as soon as I'm back at my place with the CD, but I think I've been descriptive enough to start brainstorming. SC4 is rendering graphcis using the hardware settings. I'm otherwise on low rendering settings in-game, but I didn't have problems when running low rendering on other machines. I'm running a HP Compaq 6910p with the following specs: Intel Core2 Duo @2.5Ghz 3GB of RAM Page File: 1095/3860MB ATI Mobility Radeon X2300, 128 MB video 500 GB HD @ 7200 RPM Thanks for any advice or help.

They use a similar surface for many new running tracks, and granted, those are a bit softer than what I figure they're proposing, but overall, it's a great concept.

Originally posted by: waterstreet If people are going to live in a biosphere friendly environment of low rise buidlings, along with efficent government services, there should also be a sense of community and culture. When I think of something like what ActivationEnsues said above, there must be a medium of art expression in this future world of people living close together. And I agree with the mandatory black outs, for most of my life I lived in Taos, New Mexico where the sky is so clear you can see every star in the sky, even the distant Amdromada Galaxy. In Boulder, Colorado now, I miss the stars.quote> Community and culture are the two biggest things that are missing from most "neighborhoods" these days. You can find them in the downtown areas, to use the example of Chicago again, with Wicker Park (hipsterified eclectic, but still dramatically different), Bridgeport (working class utilitarianism with a large mix of incomes), Bronzeville, Hyde Park, Chinatown, Old Town, Wrigleyville, Pilsen; the list goes on. Each of those areas have community development groups, people that organize the commercial and residential aspects of the neighborhood to create a unique segment of the city. In the suburbs, we lack that same kind of economic possibility to develop a patchwork of different subcultures across the towns, villages, and cities we live in. Commerce is relegated to strip malls, small downtown and high priced suburban cores (where the more traditional neighborhood has begun to fade away), and the sprawling concrete slabs of big box and their ilk on the peripherary. The community of suburbs often develops on cul-de-sacs, but quickly fades away after connecting to the next road. Hence why whenever I move into whatever location I so choose, I want to be highly involved with its community board, and why I try to organize even small private parties to help develop that sense of connection among people from different areas nearby.

It's strange. I've grown up in a suburban community on the very edge of the Chicago metropolis, lived there 20 years. There are a lot of nice things about the suburbs. Lower costs of living (car-dependency excepting). Plenty of green space. The ability to see the stars. And well, that's really the only things I find handy about them. My preference for a way of life would be an immediate halt on the growth of human developments, and condensing of some, so as to preserve existing farmland and wilderness preserves as well as preserve the latter, in combination with a slow birth rate plan in order to allow for density in locations to grow at the rate at which housing can construct. Honestly, I think we've reached our limit in terms of how far humanity should spread itself across the globe. We need to start thinking environmentally as well as long-term, instead of our own often-selfish interests. My preferred development world-wide would be low-rise housing in an urban setting with ease of availability of consumer goods, education, and public space via public transportation and nearby car co-ops. Rowhouses, three, four stories max, surrounding a downtown core. The one thing I would miss would be the stars. But if we've already accomplished the above, I'd like to throw in mandatory blackout nights as well

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Wow, and I thought I liked to draw maps in my spare time. These are just amazing.

I'm trying to create some individual lots from the University Reward building set so I can create my own expanding University District. I want to replace a building on an existing lot with one of the props (Classroom, Library, Science Hall, Humanities Hall, etc), but am only getting an abbreviated list to choose from, never including the University props. How do I solve this problem?